Session update tea day one

Kumble vs Hayden.

The Rolls Royce vs The 4WD Ute.

Just as Australia looked like they were going to steam roll the Indians, the unmoustached champion deceives Jacques, and then follows up with the wicket of King Probot Hussey.

Khan chipped in with the wicket of Ponting, and Australia were very nearly in trouble.

The problem for the Indians is standing at the other end. Covered with the blood of the Indian bowlers, Matthew Hayden continues to swat the bowling around whilst keeping out the great Anil.

When the wicket was tough for the first half an hour, Hayden may have said to himself “what would Jesus do?”, the answer was genocide of the Indian attack. 5 hundreds out of his last 6 matches at the G, if he wasn’t a New Texas Christian I’d claim him as a Victorian.

You could argue that Jacques, Ponting and Hussey all played up the wrong line, which is lucky for India, because otherwise this could have got real ugly at over 4 an over.

India’s fielding has never been great, but this is the biggest series of their lives and they certainly aren’t stepping up. They seem to have walked a few balls to the rope, fumbled easy ones and generally strolled when they should have hustled.

The truth is that even with a brief flurry of wickets the aussies are still 3/200odd at tea.

Harbhajan is continuing to attack with 4 men on the boundary, I can’t believe a captain who is a spinner would allow that platonic field to be used.www.cricketwithballs.com "the hooking & pulling specialists"